In most states, a person accused of a crime may claim insanity as a defense, meaning that if they can prove they lacked the mental capacity to form the intent to commit a crime, they could be found ...

Aug. 26—The comments of a Hamilton man after his arrest for a fatal shooting inside Fairfield Twp. store caused his attorney to ask a judge to order a forensic psychological evaluation to determine ...

Prosecutors said they cannot seek to criminally prosecute Endi Bala due to the state Center for Forensic Psychiatry ...

We ask too much of jurors in insanity cases. Especially ones as horrifying as this.

TAVARES — Jurors on Friday found 79-year-old Morris Reynolds not guilty of killing his wife by reason of insanity. Prosecutors had charged him with first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm in ...

The public tends to believe that criminals who plead not guilty by reason of insanity, or NGRI, are taking the easy way out, that they're cheating the system, that they walk away from their crimes ...

In one case, a man killed two family members with a sword, fearing they were playing with his soul. In another, a father beat his 4-month-old baby after saying he was told to do it by voices in his ...

Rebecca Garcia still can’t bear to celebrate Thanksgiving. She can’t stand to look her other siblings in the face, either. She hasn’t in nearly three years, since her brother-in-law confessed to the ...

And I'm Renee Montagne. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court examines the issue of the insanity defense. It will look at the case of a young man generally considered to be mentally ill. But the state of ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Three years after the deadliest attack on a newsroom in U.S. history, residents who were shaken by the assault on their local newspaper that killed five people are hopeful that an end ...

Duxbury, MA - January 28: The memorial outside of 47 Summer St. continues to grow. Lindsay M. Clancy allegedly killed her young children before jumping out of a second-story window at the residence.